Monthly Archive for October, 2008

: October, 2008

If you watched Colin Powell’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama on “Meet the Press” this weekend, you might remember hearing about Kareem Rashad Sultan Kahn, the New Jersey soldier Powell cited in a powerful appeal for the full inclusion of the Muslim faith in the American identity. Khan, who was Muslim, was deployed with a Stryker brigade based in nearby Fort Lewis when he died in Iraq last August. …

Here’s some more about my No Parking Anytime story today. The story is about how a developer began working on a condo project in Wedgwood. But when the housing market turned, the project was postponed and the building left vacant, which, of course, soon attracted graffiti. …

Christine Gregoire will be dressing up as lovable children’s character Dora this Halloween. Washington’s governor will instead greet trick-or-treaters at her Olympia mansion as the Nickelodeon cartoon character Dora the Explorer. …

Our most cynical readers need no one’s permission to point out the shortcomings — real or imagined — in Seattle’s woefully deliberate, sometimes insecure politics. But not since Car-Free Sunday had a story come along that gave them such reason to curse the city and its officials and call for everyone’s resignation. Then, this morning, a chunk fell off the viaduct. …

A week ago we told you about the cowboy people spotted riding north on the Snoqualmie River Trail on horseback, towing a pack mule with his belongings. He set off from Oklahoma June 2 and was on his way to see a friend in Ferndale, he told delighted passers-by in Carnation and Monroe. Over the weekend we heard two more reports of sightings on the trail. Looks like our cowboy — who a Cascade blog says is named “Mark” — might have made it. …

Detectives are clearly shaken and upset with the alleged child abuse they uncovered in Carnation in August. But harsh words a few of them shared privately about the case is nowhere compared to what the public has been writing in the the comments section of the accused’s knitting blog. …